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	<title>People Making a Difference®</title>
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	<description>Lori Tsuruda's Blog promoting informed and responsible volunteerism</description>
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		<title>Humor and stories help people understand/retain key points on engaging volunteers.</title>
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Although People Making a Difference (PMD) is often thought of as being the group for individuals and businesses to go to for fun, well-organized, hands-on volunteer opportunities helping community-based charities and their clients in need, PMD also provides needed training and pro bono consulting services (and serves as the fiscal sponsor and leads the Directors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Together on Common Ground to Re-Establish Our Communities&#8230;.</title>
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PMD volunteers gathered for the scheduled service project the evening of 9/11/01, and while we were not as productive as usual, we worked together for the common good. In the weeks and months that followed, PMD volunteers continued to work together despite area threats and alerts.
“We must continue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pmd.org/blogdir/?p=59</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All About Who You Know&#8230;Well Enough for Mutually Beneficial Relationships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a guest blogger again for VolunteerMaine, leading up to their annual conference where I will present next month, building on last year&#8217;s workshop on building community partnerships.

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		<link>http://www.pmd.org/blogdir/?p=58</link>
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		<title>Are You Ready to Recruit Volunteers? http://www.massnonprofit.org/expert.php?artid=1571&#038;catid=64</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve provided some Expert Advice for Massnonprofit.org at http://www.massnonprofit.org/expert.php?artid=1571&#038;catid=64
Disclaimer: This is general advice. Results will vary for specific programs and people. For assistance with your volunteer program and its particular challenges, please contact me directly for consultations.

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		<link>http://www.pmd.org/blogdir/?p=57</link>
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		<title>Rejecting/Accepting Volunteers Based on What We Need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jenny Hibbard blogged about &#8220;Volunteer Hoards: More Work Than Help&#8221; and Brad Feld blogged about &#8220;Saying No in Less than 60 Seconds&#8221; this week, so in this spirit of of maximizing the time/effort that one spends on what&#8217;s important, I think more volunteer managers need to educate the public as to what their charities need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pmd.org/blogdir/?p=56</link>
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		<title>Should MA fund Americorps? My unpopular view.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBJ has a good article describing AmeriCorps&#8217; potential &#8220;do or die&#8221; funding situation in Massachusetts.
Although many of my colleagues, AmeriCorps alumni, and friends are lobbying for full funding of AmeriCorps in MA due to the federal match and their livelihoods, I find myself unsure when direct needs like food and housing subsidies, education, day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Don&#8217;t People Really Volunteer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conversely, What Will Get People to Volunteer?  See final paragraph.
One of my pet peeves is when underlying survey biases influence the results. I recently saw another reference to a common reason why people tell surveyors they don&#8217;t volunteer, that they say don&#8217;t know where to go, in a NYT article featuring Michael Bloomberg encouraging more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pmd.org/blogdir/?p=54</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Missing from the Calls to Volunteer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2009 has already had unprecedented numbers of leaders encourage more Americans to serve: President Obama on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, the massive Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, and Michael Bloomberg encouraging more New Yorkers to volunteer last week. Last year, Deval Patrick created the Commonwealth Corps in an effort to increase volunteerism and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pmd.org/blogdir/?p=53</link>
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		<title>Tell me about project problems, and I can often help you out.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Open communication is key to good service project development, particularly since we at PMD are good problem solvers, plus tap resources and connections when things are not going as planned. Most of the partner charities PMD assists need more than simply volunteers recruited to help them.
For example, last year one of our long-time charity partners [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pmd.org/blogdir/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Real reasons why people don&#8217;t volunteer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deborah Finn, who moderates the Mission-Based Massachusetts yahoogroup, pointed us to a blog entry about Information Age volunteerism by Ben Rigby, a cofounder of the Extraordinaries. It combined with the comments are interesting. Like the commenters, I think that a combination of new and old ways of volunteerism is needed.
I also posted this comment about [...]]]></description>
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